Battle of Guandu (1926)

The Battle of Guandu was one of the actions between the Kuomintang and the Central Plains Warlords, during which Jiang Jieshi's KMT army encircled a large coalition army of half of a million troops. Most of the warlords' troops were captured, and Jieshi earned praise as a genius military commander.

Battle
National Revolutionary Army commander Jiang Jieshi and a Kuomintang army of 300,000 troops assembled to fight against the Central Plains Warlords, whose leaders Yi Jueqiao, Zhang Ziyun, Qiang Bao, and Huang Ding presented an army of 500,000 troops to fight. The NRA used flanking movements to encircle the Central Plains Warlords' army, and mortar fire hit the trapped soldiers. The warlords surrendered, losing 120,000 dead and the rest captured; the Nationalists lost 30,000.